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Ventrilia sacellum

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

Taxonomy
Trigonostoma (Ventrilia) sacellum was named by Petit (1976). Its type specimen is USNM 220092, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TU 958 - Cativa [lower Gatun Fm], which is in a Tortonian coastal siltstone in the Gatun Formation of Panama.

It was recombined as Ventrilia sacellum by Landau et al. (2012) and Landau et al. (2012).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Trigonostoma (Ventrilia) sacellum Petit p. 42 figs. pl. 2, fig. 4
2012Ventrilia sacellum Landau et al. p. 335

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyCancellarioideaGray 1853
familyCancellariidaeGray 1853
subfamilyCancellariinaeGray 1853
genusVentriliaJousseaume 1887
speciessacellum()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Ventrilia sacellum Petit 1976
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Diagnosis
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